Chapter 1468 The edge of the wheat field
The red harvester was full of horsepower, driving the thick wheels to run forward quickly, and black smoke came out of the chimney, followed by a truck with a big truck next to it, and the grain kept falling into the truck.
The golden wheat straw turns into slag and falls out from behind the harvester, and is lined up in a winding row. In two days, people will collect them and ferment them into fertilizer to be used as food for livestock.
Straw is rich in cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, and has sufficient energy. It is a coarse grain that cattle, sheep and other animals like. Some ranchers will also pay for grated straw and mix it with other grains to make feed.
The snow-mounted ranch has not many straws. Considering that it is necessary to allow the cattle and sheep to eat for a year, it is not enough to use it yourself, so it will not be sold to other ranches.
In addition, pigs, alpacas and other animals also like to eat a few bites of straw to change their taste. Eating some coarse grains will help them grow better hair. Straw resources are not wasted at all in the snow-capped ranch.
The residue after burning can fertilize the soil, but the US government prohibits this. If all of them are burned, the harm to the air and the environment will be too great. If you are good at burning straw, you will be fined and detained.
Agricultural scientists therefore came up with better ideas. After grinding the straw, they buried it in the soil of the farmland with machines, which would ferment faster. The land serves crop growth and consumes a lot of nutrients. Straw can enhance the soil's water retention ability, prevent soil erosion, and promote the increase in the content of nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and other substances in the soil.
After using this environmentally friendly method of treating straw, even if artificial fertilizers are not sown, the land can maintain sufficient nutrients and wait for the continued cultivation of crops in the coming year.
The families of employees and families of Snow Mountain Ranch will also use these free raw materials to make various decorations such as scarecrows, paintings, etc. to earn some money to subsidize the household income.
Every time someone builds a house, they will find some straw that is squeezed into blocks and use it as fillings in the walls. The insulation and insulation are quite good.
The harvest has lasted for three days and not all of them have been done. The ears of wheat have turned into full grains. After being dried and screened by machine, they are stored in granaries. Although this batch of grain is very large, it will be used up until the next harvest is over.
In the past, there were still some left to sell to the outside world, but it was not enough since beer was brewed. The consumption of grain from brewing was simply a bottomless pit. No wonder in ancient China, the official issued a ban on alcohol at the annual disaster meeting to ensure sufficient food among the people.
The snow-mountain ranch is busy several times a year, from buying cattle and sheep in the beginning of spring, to sheep in late spring and early summer, then harvesting barley and wheat, and then the orchard harvest season follows.
Grass is harvested in late summer and another crop is required before winter. Finally, it is the busiest time for selling cattle and sheep in the year. Only after heavy snow and ice the field can you get a few months of rest.
He said he was busy or not, and he was simple or not. Han Qianshan had long been used to these things. He was trapped in the pasture by big and small things all year round, and he felt that his life was quite fulfilling.
These days, he spent his days near the farmland, his skin was red and his lips were dry and cracked.
The weather is still hot, and it is a good thing for the busy farming industry. When the harvest comes to the end, you can finally let go
It was evening again, the sky was colorful and looked very close to the ground. Just a quick shot showed beautiful wallpaper.
At this moment, seeing Anya walking towards her son with a hat in her hand, Dad Han asked her with a smile: "Oya, what's in her hat? Have you gone to the orchard?"
"No."
Anya shook her head and showed him the green thing in her hat, with her lips curled up: "It's lotus seeds. I just picked a lot of them with Han Xuan. After removing the lotus heart, it tastes quite sweet. I like to eat this."
Han Xuan held Fat Ding, who was about to go out but was lazy and didn't want to walk, and said tiredly: "The lotus seeds are the best in this season. After a while, I will grow old. I encountered a water snake while rowing, which was right next to me, and I almost scared me to death."
Fear of snakes is a disease and there is no cure. A small number of people like this animal, while more people will be afraid of it from the bottom of their hearts.
Snakes are naturally unpleasant, and many snakes have venom that kills people, making them even more unpleasant.
"You should catch it, so we'll have snake soup to drink at night. Remember to lie to your mother and say it's fish soup. She said it tastes good after drinking it last time."
My father said this with great urgency. He grabbed a lotus seed from Anya's hat, peeled it off and threw it into his mouth, and then said, "There are many pheasant eggs in the field. Anderson picked up a large pot for me. When he went home at night, he used them to cook tea eggs. It was smaller than the eggs and was easier to taste.
You have to first distinguish whether it has been hatched. Joanna can tell it out, otherwise it would be a sin to see the pheasant after peeling the eggshell."
"In a sense, fertilized eggs are also considered pheasants. What is the difference between the two?"
Han Xuan squatted in front of the basin of a full pot, a few sizes smaller than the eggs, picked them up and picked them up, and felt that there was no difference. He didn't understand how Joanna distinguished it.
"How can it be the same? It looks different. By the way, son, do you think there is an egg first or a chicken first?"
This is a puzzle that has troubled people since ancient times, and it often aroused ancient philosophers to explore and discuss the origin of life and the universe.
Han Xuan told: "Since Darwin's theory of evolution appeared, this problem has lost its meaning. It is difficult to draw conclusions unless it returns to the first chicken or the egg that can hatch chickens, and the scene when it first appeared.
Scientists have found that the animal chicken is likely to evolve from a certain dinosaur. Except for a few species, such as plesiosaurs, etc., most dinosaurs are also egg animals. It is likely that a species evolved into the predecessor of chickens, and its offspring, that is, eggs, retained this gene.
Or the egg mutation, accidentally gave birth to the predecessor of the chicken, and then retained its appearance characteristics, so the chicken was born, but this also caused problems because a chicken could not give birth to offspring.
Therefore, it must mated with the same species before the mutation, causing the original ethnic group to change over the long years and become a real chicken."
My dad probably understood, but in fact he still had only a few understandings.
Take out the car keys from my pocket and said, "I'm going to the beer factory now. They use the newly produced barley this year to make a batch of beer. Do you want to go with me?"
"Okay, I haven't been there yet. I just happened to get some wine to drink it. I heard that the freshly produced raw beer is the most fragrant."
Han Xuan accompanied Anya for two days. The ranch was so big, there were only so many places to watch and play. So he pulled Anya and sat in his father's Hummer...
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Chapter completed!